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Yellow-billed Cuckoo Range Map

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Range Map for Yellow-billed Cuckoo

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Migration

Long-distance migrant. Yellow-Billed Cuckoos migrate to South America for the winter. East coast birds travel via Central America and the West Indies; western birds likely move down the western slope of Mexico and through Central America.

Map data are provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.

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Cuckoos(Order: Cuculiformes, Family: Cuculidae)

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